Create a Team

Why teams?

Teams are how multiple people on Ratel co-author content, govern decisions together, and share rewards as a group. A team has its own handle, its own arena pages, and its own treasury — so the work you do collectively is attributed to the team, not just the people inside it.

In the near future, every team will also be able to present a unified Essence House — a shared knowledge surface that captures what your team stands for and what it has learned together. For now, think of a team as a focused collaboration unit with first-class governance built in.

Create a team

You can start a new team from the Create Team action in your profile dropdown (open it from the avatar at the bottom of the sidebar). A short popup walks you through the basics:

• Team handle — this becomes your team's URL: /your-handle. Pick something short and stable; the handle is hard to change later.
• Display name — the friendly name shown across the platform.
• Banner and bio — give your team an identity people can recognize at a glance.
• Initial members — invite a few teammates by username or email; they receive an invitation they can accept or decline.

Once created, you land on the team's home at /your-handle/home.

Team arena — your team's home

Every team gets its own arena layout, separate from individual user pages. The HUD tabs along the top of the arena are:

Tab	URL	Icon
Home	/your-handle/home
Members	/your-handle/members
Drafts	/your-handle/team-drafts
DAO	/your-handle/dao
Rewards	/your-handle/team-rewards
Memberships	/your-handle/team-memberships
Settings	/your-handle/team-settings

Inside Settings:

• Members — /your-handle/team-settings/members
• Subscription — /your-handle/team-settings/subscription

Bookmark /your-handle/home — it's the canonical entry point for everything your team does.

Members and roles

The Members tab (/your-handle/members) shows everyone currently on the team, plus pending invitations.

To bring someone in, open Settings → Members and send an invite. Invitees see the invitation in their inbox and can accept or decline. When they accept, they appear immediately on the public Members page.

At a high level, teams have two kinds of people:

• Team admins can update team settings, invite or remove members, manage the subscription, and approve DAO outcomes.
• Team members can co-author posts, contribute to drafts, take part in DAO votes, and receive rewards.

Most day-to-day work — writing posts, voting, claiming rewards — is open to all members. Anything that changes the team's identity or billing is admin-only.

Posts, drafts, rewards, memberships

A team is a full publishing unit, just like an individual user.

Posts

Posts authored under the team handle appear on the team home and in feeds attributed to the team. Any member can publish on the team's behalf.

Drafts

The Drafts tab (/your-handle/team-drafts) is a shared workspace. Pick up someone else's draft, leave it for a teammate to finish, or co-edit before publishing.

Rewards

The Rewards tab (/your-handle/team-rewards) tracks rewards the team has earned — from spaces it has run, posts that were rewarded, or governance participation. Rewards can stay in the team treasury or be distributed to members.

Memberships

Teams can offer paid memberships to supporters at /your-handle/team-memberships. Supporters subscribe to your team and unlock member-only content or perks. This is separate from the team's own subscription (below).

Team subscription

Open Settings → Subscription at /your-handle/team-settings/subscription to manage your team's plan.

The subscription unlocks team-level features (monthly Credits for reward Spaces, the Trusted Creator badge, raw participant data access at higher tiers). Billing is handled off-chain via PortOne, so you can pay with the methods you already use. See Team Settings → Team subscription for the full breakdown.

DAO — collective governance

Every team has a built-in DAO at /your-handle/dao.

The DAO is where the team makes decisions together rather than having one person decide. Any member can open a proposal — for example, "allocate part of the treasury to a campaign", "approve a sub-team's application", or "change the team's bio". Members then vote, and the result becomes the team's official position.

Proposal types tie back into real team actions: budget allocations affect the rewards treasury, sub-team decisions affect team structure, and governance outcomes are recorded on the team's timeline so the history is auditable.

Sub-teams

Teams can also have sub-teams — smaller groups operating under a parent team's umbrella, each with their own bylaws, docs, and announcements.

Sub-team flows live under your team's arena and cover the full lifecycle:

• Apply to be a sub-team of a parent team — /your-handle/sub-teams/apply
• Application status — /your-handle/sub-teams/application
• Manage child sub-teams — /your-handle/sub-teams/manage
• Sub-team detail — /your-handle/sub-teams/:sub-team-id, including the deregister flow
• Sub-team docs — compose and edit shared documents under /your-handle/sub-teams/docs/...
• Sub-team announcements — broadcast updates to members under /your-handle/sub-teams/announcements/...
• Bylaws — /your-handle/bylaws
• Leave parent — /your-handle/parent/leave

See Sub-teams for the full flow — apply, manage, docs, announcements, bylaws, deregister, leave parent — covered URL by URL.